Missing Scriptures In The Niv Bible

[lalah]

When I first saw this, I went to my favorite study Bible, which my NIV. I then opened my KJB, which I never read and compared. I was so shocked to discover that these scriptures in the KJ are actually missing from my NIV. Is anyone else aware of this???

http://www.sound-doctrine.net/VersesDeletedFromNIV.htm

Which Bible verses did the NIV delete?

WHOLE Bible verses deleted in the NIV

The following WHOLE verses have been removed in the NIV--whether in the text or footnotes.. here is but an example but there is over 40 IN ALL!!! The NIV also is a collaberator with the JWB or Jehovah's Witness "Bible".
Matthew 12:47 -- removed in the footnotes

Matthew 17:21 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting."

Matthew 18:11 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost."

Matthew 21:44 -- removed in the footnotes

Matthew 23:14 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation."

Mark 7:16 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "If any man have ears to hear, let him hear."

Mark 9:44 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
"Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched."

Mark 9:46 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched."

Mark 11:26 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses."

Mark 15:28 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors."

Mark 16:9-20 (all 12 verses) -- There is a line separating the last 12 verses of Mark from the main text. Right under the line it says: [The two most reliable early manuscripts do not have Mark 16:9-20] (NIV, 1978 ed.) The Jehovah's Witness "Bible" also places the last 12 verses of Mark as an appendix of sorts.

Luke 17:36 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left."

Luke 22:44 -- removed in the footnotes

Luke 22:43 -- removed in the footnotes

Luke 23:17 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "(For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)"

John 5:4 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had."

John 7:53-8:11 -- removed in the footnotes

Acts 8:37 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. It's deletion makes one think that people can be baptized and saved without believing on the Lord Jesus Christ. Sounds Catholic. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God."

Acts 15:34 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still."

Acts 24:7 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,"

Acts 28:29 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning among themselves."

Romans 16:24 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen."

I John 5:7 -- Vitally important phrase COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. In the NIV it says,
"For there are three that testify:"
Compare the NIV reading with the following Jehovah's Witness reading--
"For there are three witness bearers,"
What are you NIV readers missing? What does the real Bible say?
KJV: "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one."

This is one of the GREATEST verses testifying of the trinity. That is why the Jehovah's Witnesses leave it out. They do not believe in the trinity and they do not believe that Jesus is God. Why does the NIV leave it out...? Whole books have been written on the manuscript evidence that supports inclusion of this verse in the Bible. Reader, do you believe in the triunity of God? If so, then this deletion should offend you. People are playing around with the Bible and it ain't funny.

NIV Reader: Do you have enough confidence in the NIV to...
tell God, OUT LOUD, that these verses do not belong in the Bible?
If not, you need to get a King James so you can have some confidence.

 

[lalah]

These are comparison photos I with my phone

I can't get them to upload from my phone so nevermind

 

[mz.rae]

Interesting, I'm hoping others can chime in. I know there has been some debate as to whether those verses were in the original manuscript of the Bible. That's why some translation have left them out, the translation I am using now has those verses in brackets with a footnote.

ETA: A lot of the verses that they omitted in the 1984 edition of the NIV Bible, they have put the verse number in brackets with a footnote in the 2011 version of the NIV.

 

[mensa]

When I first saw this, I went to my favorite study Bible, which my NIV. I then opened my KJB, which I never read and compared. I was so shocked to discover that these scriptures in the KJ are actually missing from my NIV. Is anyone else aware of this???

http://www.sound-doctrine.net/VersesDeletedFromNIV.htm

Which Bible verses did the NIV delete?

WHOLE Bible verses deleted in the NIV

The following WHOLE verses have been removed in the NIV--whether in the text or footnotes.. here is but an example but there is over 40 IN ALL!!! The NIV also is a collaberator with the JWB or Jehovah's Witness "Bible".
Matthew 12:47 -- removed in the footnotes

Matthew 17:21 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting."

Matthew 18:11 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost."

Matthew 21:44 -- removed in the footnotes

Matthew 23:14 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation."

Mark 7:16 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "If any man have ears to hear, let him hear."

Mark 9:44 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
"Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched."

Mark 9:46 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched."

Mark 11:26 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses."

Mark 15:28 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "And the scripture was fulfilled, which saith, And he was numbered with the transgressors."

Mark 16:9-20 (all 12 verses) -- There is a line separating the last 12 verses of Mark from the main text. Right under the line it says: [The two most reliable early manuscripts do not have Mark 16:9-20] (NIV, 1978 ed.) The Jehovah's Witness "Bible" also places the last 12 verses of Mark as an appendix of sorts.

Luke 17:36 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left."

Luke 22:44 -- removed in the footnotes

Luke 22:43 -- removed in the footnotes

Luke 23:17 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "(For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)"

John 5:4 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had."

John 7:53-8:11 -- removed in the footnotes

Acts 8:37 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. It's deletion makes one think that people can be baptized and saved without believing on the Lord Jesus Christ. Sounds Catholic. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God."

Acts 15:34 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "Notwithstanding it pleased Silas to abide there still."

Acts 24:7 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,"

Acts 28:29 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "And when he had said these words, the Jews departed, and had great reasoning among themselves."

Romans 16:24 -- COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. What are you NIV readers missing?
KJV: "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen."

I John 5:7 -- Vitally important phrase COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. In the NIV it says,
"For there are three that testify:"
Compare the NIV reading with the following Jehovah's Witness reading--
"For there are three witness bearers,"
What are you NIV readers missing? What does the real Bible say?
KJV: "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one."

This is one of the GREATEST verses testifying of the trinity. That is why the Jehovah's Witnesses leave it out. They do not believe in the trinity and they do not believe that Jesus is God. Why does the NIV leave it out...? Whole books have been written on the manuscript evidence that supports inclusion of this verse in the Bible. Reader, do you believe in the triunity of God? If so, then this deletion should offend you. People are playing around with the Bible and it ain't funny.

NIV Reader: Do you have enough confidence in the NIV to...
tell God, OUT LOUD, that these verses do not belong in the Bible?
If not, you need to get a King James so you can have some confidence.

Because of this, I choose to only read/study from the KJV.

 

[Shimmie]

King James (KJV) is my default translation in my Bible Studies.

@Laylah

Thank you for sharing this information. It's vital to know and to make known to our sisters and brothers in Christ as there are many who default to the NIV and perhaps are unaware of this.

 

[ilong]

@lalah - thank you for this very important post. It's unbelievable - really! I checked both of my NIV Study bibles and the first five verses in your listing are not there.

 

[lalah]

Now I am on the search for a new Bible. I prefer a study Bible. Do you all have any recommendations for KJ study Bible?

 

[kanozas]

Thank you for this. I had no idea but NIV is not the official translation of our church (catholic) but the Vulgate translated into the Latin by St. Jerome. There are certain translations approved for our use by our church. Maybe you should ask your pastor which one to use? I'm kinda shocked by all this.

 

[Iwanthealthyhair67]

You will have to ensure that the Niv, version that you use is prior to 2015, I think that's when the 'change' would have taken place.

 

[lalah]

You will have to ensure that the Niv, version that you use is prior to 2015, I think that's when the 'change' would have taken place.

I don't remember the year I purchased my Bible, but I've had for many years. I can almost guarantee I have had it at least 8 years, which would be before 2015. I have the Tyndale life application NIV. I think I remember hearing about a Bible that have two translations side by side. I'm looking for something like that.

 

[Loving]

I John 5:7 -- Vitally important phrase COMPLETELY removed [also deleted from the Jehovah's Witness "Bible"]. In the NIV it says,
"For there are three that testify:"
Compare the NIV reading with the following Jehovah's Witness reading--
"For there are three witness bearers,"
What are you NIV readers missing? What does the real Bible say?
KJV: "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one."

I remember the first time I realized that this was missing from the NIV bible. I was so distraught. I was in Bible Study one evening and remember searching for this scripture high and low. I memorized it from I was a teenager but wanted to verify something. I searched and searched and searched and then I saw the little footnote 'Some manuscripts include 1 John 5v7 - For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one'.

I think they have included a little footnote in all instances where they have removed verses from the NIV version.

 

[Loving]

I think I remember hearing about a Bible that have two translations side by side. I'm looking for something like that.

If you don't mind going online, you can use BibleGateway.com for this

 

[mz.rae]

I don't know what was wrong with me before, but I picked up a KJV Bible and too my surprise I am actually understanding what is being said!

 

[NICOLETHENUMBERONE]

I'm not sure but I remember something years ago about a scripture "and these only come out by fasting and prayer." Its in the new testament and when dealing with certain spirits , fasting is necessary but from my memory NIV did not have the fassting part.its Matthew 17:21 but it appears that ch 17 only ends with, "nothing will be impossible for you."
I had a dream a month ago where the Holy Spirit told me to uSE KJV or nkjv

@lalah

 

[momi]

Which is why I primarily use ESV or KJV. I also make my children get used to using a hard copy - the day may come when we are unable to trust online versions unfortunately.

 

[Divine.]

I don't remember the year I purchased my Bible, but I've had for many years. I can almost guarantee I have had it at least 8 years, which would be before 2015. I have the Tyndale life application NIV. I think I remember hearing about a Bible that have two translations side by side. I'm looking for something like that.

I just found my mom's bible that parallels the KJV and the Amplified translation. This has been the best thing for me! I feel God's Word is completely broken down reading these two together. My current study bible is NIV. I don't mind it, but I think for studying the Amplified/KJV is best.

 

[lalah]

Okay, these are the two new Bibles I purchased to study from...

 

[mz.rae]

I just wanted to say for those who have a hard time reading KJV, the NASB is a very good translation that follows very closely to KJV. I also like that it capitalizes the pronouns that refer to God and Jesus in the text.

 

[mz.rae]

I'm sorry I know OP has probably already found the solution to her Bible search. But I just also wanted to come back and share this. I have really wanted to get into reading the KJV translation of the Bible. But some times my abilty to understand would be hit or miss. But this version of the KJV was brought to my attention, it's the King James Version Easy Reader. They just changed the pronouns to modern terms so no thees and thous, As well as underlined and defined words that we don't use in modern English. So far I am really enjoying it!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/16291...word+bible&dpPl=1&dpID=41DckhhgqUL&ref=plSrch